Ali Abdul Aziz
Ali began his career in real estate in the United States after attaining a brokerage license from the State of Michigan. He went on to join Deloitte in Dubai and from there embarked on entrepreneurial ventures across various geographies eventually leading him into the investment space. Ali co-founded and was the managing partner of Capital Bee, a boutique VC & PE advisory firm. He worked closely with renowned institutional investors, family offices and HNWIs, his track record encompasses a portfolio of significant deals completed in major markets. Ali holds a Bachelor Degree in Finance and serves on a number of advisory boards and investment committees. He has joined Ethus as Head of Business Development.
Vardan Arakelyan
Vardan studied a master’s degree in Computer Science at SEUA Yerevan University. In 2013, he started to work on the development of BI tools in Dom-Daniel Armenia. In 2016, Vardan joined “Praemium”, an investment management company, as a software developer. His programming skills, coupled with a passion in data science, helps him to create computer programmes for analysing stock markets. Vardan is a software developer for Ethus.
Albert Bagienski
Albert holds a degree in Quantitative Methods in Economics and Information Systems from the Warsaw School of Economics. He began his career in banking as a risk quantification specialist at ING Group. He contributed to several key projects there including the development of a new operational risk model for economic capital and quantification of ESG risks such as flooding and biodiversity loss. Albert worked as a research assistant on projects at both the London School of Economics and the Warsaw School of Economics. Albert is a software developer for Ethus.
Jakub Grohmann
Jakub holds a BSc in Econometrics and Mathematical Economics from the London School of Economics and a MSc in Statistical Science from the University of Oxford. After graduation, he worked at an economic consultancy, applying his skills in quantitative analysis in a variety of areas such as efficiency and demand modelling. At Ethus, Jakub in his role as a Programmer creates quantitative tools and models which blend hard data with expert human insight, empowering strategic decision-making processes.
Mervyn Hughes
Graduated in 1990 from Southampton University with a degree in Business Economics and Accountancy. In 1994 he moved to Bermuda and joined International Fund Administration where he helped build a new hedge fund administration business. In February 1997, he joined Park Place Capital to help set up Newman Ragazzi & Co Ltd which started in January 1998. He worked as COO of Newman Ragazzi for nine years when he helped merge the firm with Odey Asset Management LLP until 2007. In October 2007, he was a founding partner at Belvedere Investment Partners LLP. In 2009 to present day he has worked as COO of Berkeley Asset Management and has also provided COO services to Tovel Investments and Winterbrook Capital Limited. Mervyn is the COO of Ethus based in London.
Daniel Hunter
Daniel joined Ethus in March 2021 to run testing and oversee the IT infrastructure. He has been working in the hedge fund industry since 2000, including 17 years with Lansdowne Partners, where after joining the operations team, spent time on the central trading desk before moving to help design and build the internal Enterprise Management System which managed Lansdowne’s trading, P&L reporting, risk and compliance. He then helped launch Lansdowne’s first UCITS product and became deputy portfolio manager and trader for the Lansdowne Insight Discovery Fund, managing day to day trading and risk for the systematic global equity market neutral fund.
Vahe Hovhannisyan
Vahe joined Ethus in September 2016 as a quantitative analyst, having graduated with an LLB degree at King’s College London and completing his master’s degree at Stockholm University. He also has a wealth of programming achievements since his early formative years. After graduation, Vahe worked in a law firm specialising in intellectual property automating processes and workflows for the firm. Vahe joins Ethus utilising his programming skills while ensuring that the data infrastructure and the content are up to the highest standards. Vahe is a lead Quant for Ethus.
Michele Ragazzi
After beginning his career in investment banking in Italy, Michele Joined Park Place Capital Ltd in London in 1992 and then started managing the “Giano” hedge fund in November 1994.
In January 1998 he founded Newman Ragazzi & Co.
He won “Best Hedge Fund Manager” in 1998 and “Best European Hedge Fund” in 2003.
He joined Odey asset management in 2007.
In 2017 Michele founded Ethus Ltd.
He continues to advise the Giano Capital fund.
Edward Rumble
Ed graduated with an M.Phil in Politics from The University of Oxford in 1995 before beginning his career as an equity analyst at Fidelity Investments. Ed moved to American Express Asset Management in 2001, where he helped build their European Equity Alternatives offering. Ed co-founded Pensato Capital in 2007. He co-managed the Pensato Europa long/short strategy between 2008 and 2019 as well as the Pensato European Equity Long Only fund from 2015, achieving several nominations and awards for outstanding performance from recognised investment industry bodies such as EuroHedge. Ed joined Ethus as Head of Fundamental Research in 2021
